'Mommy loves you': Accused killer recounts Tammy Brown's dying words to her children

Tammy Brown's final words as she was lyingdying on her bedroom floor were how she loved her two children,according to the man accused of killing her.

"Tammy loved those kids," Blake Schreiner said in an interview with police hours after he'd been arrested in connection with her death on Jan. 29, 2019.

"That was the last thing she said, she said 'Mommy loves you' ... that was after, those were her last breaths, I think."

Sobbing could be heard throughout the packed gallery at Court of Queen's Bench in Saskatoon, as avideotaped interview with Sgt. Kory Ochitwaplayed on TV screens suspended from the ceiling.

Schreiner is charged with first-degree murder. Tuesday was day two of the judge-onlytrial.

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Schreiner initially resisted providing an account of what happened in the couple's River Heights home that Tuesday morning.

But Ochitwacoaxed the story out of him, saying police are simply looking for the truth.

The couple had two children, a boy, aged three, and a girl, aged one. Schreinersaid their relationshipdeterioratedafter the birth of their daughter and that Brown wanted to separate from him.

Schreinersaid that Brownwanted custody of the children.Heaccused Brown of plotting against him as part of a planto ensure she would get custody of the kids.

The night before her death, Schreiner said"she pretty much said 'I'll make it so you're a pedophile, I'll put you away in jail.'"

Schreiner says he was terrified by the potential allegation.

"That's an ender ... you never come back from that," he concluded.

Schreiner says Brown asked him to spend the night in their daughter's room, which he did, fully clothed because of the alleged threat against his reputation. He thensaid on the day of the killing that he heard a voice inside of his head, around 4:30 a.m.

"Idon't know what it was Ijust,yeah Ijust, just my mind was going a mile a minute and then it got onto the track, a bad track and Igrabbed the knife and i went into the, the room and that happened," he said.

Schreiner says he did not know what he was doing. As Tammy wasdying, her three-year-old son came into the room.

"He got his feet full of blood and we put socks on his feet cause he said they were wet," he said.

"I shut the door to the room and I made them breakfast and I thought inside my head 'I might not ever see my kids again,'" he recalled."So, we had breakfast and we hung out and did our thing and Iwaited until the last minute to call the cops."

Court heard the call to 911. The operator asked who had caused harm to the person side the house.

"Okay, was it yourself that did this or someone else?"

Schreiner first replies that there was a break in, then immediately clarifies.

"No, this was me. I'll wait for the police to arrive."

The trial will nowbreak until May 21, whenCrown prosecutors Melodi Kujawa and Thomas O'Hara areexpected to close theircase.